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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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Wuttunee 'horrified' by nursery rhyme
When Yvonne Wuttunee bought a nursery rhyme record and bookset for her six-year-old daughter, Terra-Dawn, she never imagined for one minute that this would lead her to make resolutions at an All Chiefs' conference or to organize a delegation to the International court.
It all started when Wuttunee began to read the rhymes to her…
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A recent Statement of Claim by the four Hobbema Indian Bands with the Federal Court of Canada, regarding Rupert's Land, has far-reaching and long-standing implications.
The area in question encompassed almost half the land mass of present-day Canada.
Originally, Rupert's Land included most of what is today the three prairie provinces, the Northwest Territories (NWT),…
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From education to survival, from rights to indignities-these were the concerns on the minds of Alberta's Treaty Eight chiefs, band representatives, and other interested and concerned parties at a recent workshop held at Jasper's Sawridge Hotel.
The issues represented a broad spectrum of viewpoints among the Treaty 8 leaders with the most emphasis put on wildlife, education,…
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"Government is greedy," said 76 year old Dan McLean, a Native trapper from the Fox Creek area of Alberta. "They are going to sell off my land-maybe to some rich millionaire from Europe or Asia. They'll have more treaty right than we do. If these new wildlife regulations are implemented, there will soon be no more unoccupied crown lands for us to hunt and trap on. This is the way I…
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Two new natural areas established
Official establishment of two new natural areas in Alberta was recently announced by Hon. Don Sparrow, Minister of Forestry, lands and Wildlife.
The two conservation sites are the Wagner Natural Area, 6 km northwest of Edmonton south of Highway 16X, and the Pine Sands Natural Area, about 40 km northeast of the town of Athabasca on…
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Two new natural areas established
Official establishment of two new natural areas in Alberta was recently announced by Hon. Don Sparrow, Minister of Forestry, lands and Wildlife.
The two conservation sites are the Wagner Natural Area, 6 km northwest of Edmonton south of Highway 16X, and the Pine Sands Natural Area, about 40 km northeast of the town of Athabasca on…
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Calgary Mayor Ralph Klein entered the frey between the Lubicon Lake band and the federal government by announcing he is writing a letter to External Affairs Minister Joe Clark demanding the government re-enter negotiations with the Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominiyak over the band's land claim.
After an hour-long meeting with Ominiyak and several representatives from Treaty 7, in…
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I get a warm feeling when I think about the average Canadian these days, thanks to two public opinion polls. They show that Canadians are solidly behind the idea of Native self-government. But these same polls also give me a pretty cold feeling when I think about the First Ministers-or at least most of them.
I'll get to that but first, a little information about the two…
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South African Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb received a formal request for foreign aid to the tune of $99 million from Chief Louis Stevenson during Babb's (March 10, 1987) controversial visit to the Peguis Indian Reserve in Manitoba, last week.
Stevenson revealed that he wanted his appeal for foreign aid to Pretoria S.A. on the record to embarrass Canada's federal…
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South African Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb received a formal request for foreign aid to the tune of $99 million from Chief Louis Stevenson during Babb's (March 10, 1987) controversial visit to the Peguis Indian Reserve in Manitoba, last week.
Stevenson revealed that he wanted his appeal for foreign aid to Pretoria S.A. on the record to embarrass Canada's federal…
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Hobbema's four Indian bands are suing the government of Canada for a declaration that commitments made by the government of Canada in the "Rupert's Land and Northwestern Territory Order" of 1870, are still binding today.
The four Bands filed a statement of claim in the Federal Court, Trial Division in Edmonton, March 18.
At a press conference in Edmonton, chiefs…
On February 21, 1983, after months of planning and negotiations on the part of some of the old staff from the defunct Alberta Native Communications Society (ANCS), Bert Crowfoot was made the acting director of the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA).
It was the beginning of an organization whose primary goal was to strive towards self-sufficiency as a leading Native…
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"Everyone is a unique individual," or so the saying goes. One of those individuals is Vic Reece, who is one of the exhibitors in the Loss Angeles Celebration of Canadian Native Contemporary Art which continues until April 26 at the Southwest Museum there.
Reece, who lives in Prince Ruper, BC, contributed a carved wooden portrait mask called "Spirit of Shaman" to the display…
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"Everyone is a unique individual," or so the saying goes. One of those individuals is Vic Reece, who is one of the exhibitors in the Loss Angeles Celebration of Canadian Native Contemporary Art which continues until April 26 at the Southwest Museum there.
Reece, who lives in Prince Ruper, BC, contributed a carved wooden portrait mask called "Spirit of Shaman" to the display…
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Elder Alex Crier said his Saddle Lake home has "no bathroom or running water." The Elder angrily shouted, "I call it an old chicken coop-a dump!"
Saddle Lake Reserve housing manager Oliver Brertton says that "it's up to the individual to keep the houses in shape."
Crier, who was born in 1919 on the Saddle Lake Reserve, says, "I stay 10 years in that house. I have to…